One in eight children have a mental disorder

A YEAR OF CELEBRATION, CHANGE AND UNCERTAINTY

Hollie Roblin, community mental health nurse and vice-chair, MHNA@HollieCPN

Investment needed to support young people who self-harm, according to new charity report

Investment needed to support young people who self-harm

Report calls for better services for severe illness

Adults with severe mental illnesses are struggling

Emergency departments failing on mental health

Emergency departments are failing people with mental health crises, according to a major review

Services failing to meet rising demand

A new report shows the extent to which mental health services are struggling to cope across England

Speak up: Lived experience needs to be valued

Dani Chadderton@DaniChadderton

MHN lead professional officer update

Dave Munday, Unite in Health@davidamunday

Factors affecting black and minority ethnic students’ decisions to access mindfulness based support at university

Michael Kelly Senior lecturer, Middlesex University Helen Gleeson Research assistant, Middlesex University Correspondence: h.gleeson@mdx.ac.uk

Five changes that we should be making

‘Jeepers McCoy’ argues there are some changes that would help stop students from dropping out

I cycled from John O’Groats to Lands End to raise awareness

Hope Virgo reflects on her endurance adventure to help raise awareness of mental health issues

Inside the mind of… Ben Hannigan

Mental Health Nursing meets the Professor of mental health nursing at Cardiff University and newly elected chair of Mental Health Nurse Academics UK@benhannigan

Book reviews

This recently updated edition bridges the gap between